Palabra clave Public Health

En este desgarrador documental, una joven que prepara su tesis doctoral recurre a la cámara para dar visibilidad a su lucha diaria contra el síndrome de fatiga crónica.

Una noche, en los barrios bajos de Nueva Orleáns, el rufián Blackie y sus amigos matan a un inmigrante que les había ganado jugando al póker. A la mañana siguiente, el doctor Clint Reed del Servicio de Salud Pública confirma que el muerto tenía la peste negra. Para evitar una epidemia que tendría efectos catastróficos, Clint y el capitán de policía Tom Warren tratan de encontrar y aislar a los asesinos. La operación se lleva a cabo en secreto, por miedo a que la población sea presa del pánico. Disponen sólo de 48 horas para conseguirlo.

Fed Up descubre un sucio secreto de la industria alimentaria estadounidense, muchos más de nosotros de lo que nadie se podría imaginar enferma por lo que comemos. La cineasta Stephanie Soechtig y la periodista de televisión Katie Couric nos llevan a través de esta potente exposición a descubrir por qué, a pesar de la atención mediática, la fascinación del público con la apariencia, y las políticas del gobierno para combatir la obesidad en los niños estadounidenses, estos niños ahora tienen una esperanza de vida más corta que la de sus padres.

China ha decidido luchar contra el coronavirus poniendo a todo el país en cuarentena. En Pekín, esto supone calles vacías, máscaras y puestos de control. El periodista francés Sébastien Le Belzic cuenta cómo es el día a día en la capital china.

The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.

An elite team of medical experts of the National Institutes of Health investigates unusual public-health crises, such as sudden outbreaks of serious and mysterious diseases.

A passionate medical team is devoted to saving lives in a bustling public hospital where tensions — and romance — keep their pulses racing.

Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis C by a contaminated anti-D injection years before. Despite the devastating effects on the women and their families, they unite in a campaign group to take on the health authorities and expose the evasions and lies of the political and bureaucratic establishment.

Join visionary philanthropist Bill Gates as he delves into pressing global issues and uncovers cutting-edge technologies that will transform the world.

Public Health is so much more than just washing your hands, adhering to smoking laws, or wearing your seatbelt -- although it is those things too. Broadly, public health is an approach to preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health for everyone. So over the course of this series, we'll show you the many ways the story of your health isn’t just about you, and how it’s about so much other stuff like the social, economic, and environmental conditions that impact all of us.

n 2019, the virologists took center stage, and for the first time on film, their methods, miscues and tragedy they have wrought are put under the spotlight, revealing the extraordinary leaps of fantasy buried in their methodology, the contradictions quietly acknowledged in their papers, their desperate effort to change language to justify their findings, the obvious incongruence of their conclusions and the extraordinary stakes for our entire society in whether we continue to blindly follow their lead into a full-scale war against nature itself.